Sonarigo

A sampling instrument right now playing (some) SFZ samples.

Introduction

The project aims to provide a LV2 plugin to use SFZ instruments in a LV2 host. Right now one needs external applications like LinuxSampler which rather complicates things.

Status

The development is in an early stage. Only the features needed for the Salamander Grand Piano are implemented as of now.

There is a rudimentary jack application and a rudimentary LV2 plugin.

Installation

Tricky. The thing is written in Rust, so you at first need to have a running rust compiler compile it and Cargo, Rust's package manager to fetch the dependencies. On Ubuntu you can install the packages rustc and cargo. If you want to use sonarigo as an LV2 plugin, you additionally need to install clang. On other distros there are probably similar packages. Also take a look at the recommendations on the Rust page and in the Cargo Book.

Once you have a running Rust/Cargo setup, clone this repository, and run

install_lv2.sh

from within the directory from a terminal. You should see a bunch of messages in your terminal. Finally it should say sonarigo.lv2 successfully installed.

Then you should find Sonarigo in plugins hosts like Ardour and Carla.

This works at least on Linux. About other systems I don't know.

Usage

Quite easy. The generic GUI lets you select an SFZ file and adjust the output gain. That's it.

Todo

Things I will definitely do

• Do all kinds of tiny improvements and bugfixes

• Implement proper Atom communication between LV2 plugin and the host

• Implement the important loop_* opcodes.

• Implement some other important sfz tags

Things I will probably do

• Write documentation

Things I probably won't do but would love to see someone else do

• Write installation scripts for systems other than Linux.

• Package the whole thing

Things I might do but don't promise (and of course welcome pull requests)

• Implement other opcodes. If you need a particular one or a particular set, and don't want can't implement that on your own, your best chances are to point me to a freely available SFZ instrument, that impressively shows the usefulness of this particular opcode.

• Implement support for gig format. Again, if you need it, point me to an impressive freely available instrument.

Things I probably won't do but welcome pull requests

• Implement opcodes that demand further DSP like comp_*, eq*, fil*, gate*, resonance*, reverb*. In my opinion these should be accomplished by other plugins downstream. If you want to convince me from the opposite, show me a freely available instrument that impressively shows it.

Things I definitely won't do but welcome pull requests

• Implement support for the sf2 sample format. There are already good lv2 solutions for sf2 out there. I recommend 'a-fluidsynth' inside Ardour.

• Write a GUI

Things I definetly won't do and probably even will reject pull requests

• Support for other plugin formats like VST. I don't use them and I could not maintain the support.